On the Afternoon Show at 1:30, Anthony announced that Jenthony is blaming Cablevision for internet problems on Friday that caused a 90% loss of audience. “When you don’t hear anything, we get disconnected from cyberspace,” said Anthony. “Sometimes its a minute, sometimes its five minutes.” Jenthony is following the strict terms of service policy and the company can’t understand service trouble.
This comes after months of an attempt to have the new Verizon FiOS be the new service line for the station. Jenthony and Verizon needs to have a permit from the Town of Islip to install the new cables on the headquarters street since the cables are underground.
We are having some internet connection problems that might continue. As of now, we have resolved the issue but we are unsure if the problem will go on again later.
Anthony Zaragoza is announcing that no one will be able to play some titles for the Nintendo Wii video game system at the station headquarters after an accident in June 2007.
WiiSports is among the titles on the list. “Games that require critical movement for the game, such as throwing a bowling ball, hitting and a baseball bat.”
Guests will still able to play games that don’t require alot of movement. Such games include Zelda Twilight Princess, Mario Kart for Wii, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. There will be a list of approved games that people will be able to play at the studios by the end of the month.
Anthony Zaragoza is reporting that final cleanup of the new studio and offices will be taking place next weekend. The new offices and studio is going to be setting up to be used as an office, a place to work, and its designed to be a set for filming newscasts in HD. “We are trying our best to make this place look nice, fresh, and clean,” said Zaragoza. No studio and office pictures haven’t been revealed since June, however the pictures in June still showed the process of the project.
The new studio will not be finished for another year, however it will be able to handle more than one station, which another station is on the way to launch for 2008.
The new redesigned area will consist of three divisions of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., which one is the operation of WRAJ Internet Radio. Currently, there are two divisons and another addition will be coming in October. “We might need to move out if there are going to be more divisions of Jenthony, there is just not enough room,” said Zaragoza. Zaragoza also answered that WRAJ Internet Radio and Jenthony might be getting a new home soon, but it is unconfirmed that it will be on Long Island since in 2006 Zaragoza announced that he is planning to move to California or Florida.
Photos of the new offices and studio will be revealed in October.
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Earlier this year, WRAJ Internet Radio announced, with its parent company Jenthony, that the station and the company will shift 80% of tasks from a Microsoft Windows PC to the Macintosh Operating System. As Anthony explained in January that this process will take a while, but the task is already ahead. Zaragoza reported on Friday that wrajradio.com will be 95% managed and coded on Macs by October. Currently, Macs are only being used to publish articles, such as this page, on the site, which is only 30% of the site operations.
Zaragoza also added “When we start to get comfortable with our software for about a few months, we might consider to change the site template for non-HD users in 2009.” Graphics on the site is already being created on the Mac since early this year, but the site template hasn’t changed since November 2003.
Last year when Zaragoza mentioned a site look change, many site fans argue not to change it, some mentioned that the site is the best looking site. Zaragoza did not leave any comments of the reactions.
In July 2007 alone, wrajradio.com reached over 3,000 unique users in more than 15 countries.
Other operations which will be done on the Mac includes audio editing, video editing (for another division of Jenthony), website editing, booklet publishing, vinyl cutting (for another division of Jenthony), and graphic editing. WRAJ Internet Radio will still continue to run the broadcasting software SAM on the Windows Operating System with Windows XP Pro.
There were many problems for us on Wednesday with our internet connection, the cause was a EF2 tornado that touched down in Brooklyn. “Our internet connection goes right through Brooklyn,” said Anthony Zaragoza, general manager of WRAJ Internet Radio. “Our route to our streaming server goes to Islip, to Brooklyn, to Manhattan, and then it goes to Chicago or New Jersey, which is where our streaming servers are located.”
As of now, WRAJ Internet Radio is still continuing to feel the aftermath of the storm. There is still low bandwidth, due to the low resources of connections in Brooklyn, which is why we might continue to go in and out from time to time.
WRAJ Internet Radio’s parent company, Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., is expecting to change internet service providers by January 2008. “Basically, we want to a seperate internet line for our streaming servers so there won’t be interuption [buffering issues], especially when we are planning to open three more streaming channels by 2009.”
Jenthony is trying to get the new Verizon FiOS internet service that was introduced on Long Island early last year. Instead, Jenthony and Verizon is trying to get a permit from the Town of Islip to install the new cable line on the company’s street. However, the process is taking longer than we thought.
Anthony noted that the installation might take place by November and our first day to use the new service will be on December 1. But the new service may not be FiOS, instead our original provider might be used.
Starting on August 10, the Afternoon Show will be changing its time slot. The Friday time slot change has never occurred since the beginning of the show in January 2003.
In 2003, the show was from 3:00 - 6:00 PM every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then the following September, Anthony decided to leave only Friday in the time slot since it was the most popular spot.
Now, nearly four years later, the time slot is being changed. The new times are from 12:00PM - 4:00PM EST every Friday. “I’ve made the change by personal reasons,” said Anthony Zaragoza, host of the Afternoon Show.
The new time slot though is not permanent. The new schedule is going to expire on January 11, 2008. “This is just a test to see if the new schedule can fit for me.”
Zaragoza is even considering to start a new live internet radio morning program by 2009, which will be aired weekly on the station. If the show can pass, it will become the first live internet radio morning show on an internet radio station.
